bookofmirrors | How 'Bout Them Metasymbology Cards, Eh?

Yep, I've been fired. "Terminated", they call it. Yeah, it wasn't completely easy. I tried screaming in the car on the way back... been trying to do that now and again, just to see if it might get out some repressed anger here and there. While I find it invigorating at times, doesn't really seem to do much for me. But, at any rate, I figured this might be one of those times I was angry or something and didn't realize it, so I did the screaming thing. Finding my voice and all that shit.

Didn't really do much. After about 2 or 3 times, I just stopped and laughed at myself. Either I'm really repressed and that didn't work, or else I really am as OK about this whole thing as I think I am. Last I looked, a few days ago, there were 63, count 'em, 63 jobs for nurses in my AJC job search mailbox. Maybe this isn't the path I'm supposed to be on, but I thank the gods I got the training when I did, 'cause I see a great many of my friends unemployed, underemployed, or not getting paid for the work they're doing. And I'm damn lucky I'm not in that boat.

I've already applied at the Breman Jewish Home over on Paces Ferry. I applied there once before, and really loved the look of the place, but I hadn't gotten my nursing license transferred from Illinois at the time, so they couldn't hire me, obviously. So, I went through their paperwork again. I went over there before I went to Mariner, so I could honestly put that I hadn't been fired from my last job on the application... cause, at that time, I hadn't. Aren't I clever? ;) Plus, I dropped the name of the Rabbi that likes me on the application.

I'm gonna call my second job tomorrow and see if they have any hours for me. I'm still technically employed there, so it's not like I'm completely unemployed at this point. So, hopefully that'll tide me over. I'll update my resume tonight, and make some phone calls tomorrow. The upside to this is that I don't have to go to work tomorrow, as I was originally scheduled to do, so I can sleep in if I decide to, and I can spend the time finding other jobs. Plus, tomorrow is payday, and I'm finally going to handle the GMAC thing. Someone called yesterday who was ACTUALLY WILLING TO WORK WITH ME. Amazing. So, as of sometime tomorrow when I make a payment, I'll be completely caught up. No more danger of repossession. Life is actually pretty good.

And, so, I reach the end of another cycle, and move on. I had said when I worked at Mariner that I wanted to work there as long as a certain patient was there, and she gets discharged tomorrow. I've done what I set out to do. I'm ready to move on.

Thanks,